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Collective Design Of The Tribal Future: Structural Analysis Of Vision Statements Constructed By The People Of The Apache, Cheyenne, And Arapaho, Comanche, And Pawnee Tribes, Benjamin J. Broom

LaDonna Harris Native American Collection

This paper reports on the results of recent design sessions conducted with several tribes in Oklahoma. During 1991 and 1992 the Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO), a national Native American Organization concerned with Tribal Governance processes worked for Oklahomans for Indian Opportunity (OIO) to sponsor a series of four projects that included participative design sessions with the Apache, Cheyenne & Arapaho, and Pawnee Tribes of Oklahoma. The research methodology is described as participant centered, contextually embedded, dialogically based, integrated, and participant validated.